in the new year, the u.s. will find more ways to utilize or export this cheaper, cleaner fossil fuel, and the increase in demand will set the stage for the continuation of rising prices. >> it's been a wild ride for oil this year. oil prices fluctuating because of a lot of stuff in the middle east, also america's growing energy independence. what can we expect from energy in 2013? joining us from london is jason from european oil and gas research at mccard securities. i'm going to ask you an overall question, jason, and i don't know how you answer this, but, for investors, that are looking at a way to play energy, i mean, is it going to be basically hydro carbon based? are we back to that where it's either natural gas or oil exploration or some facet of that? >> i certainly think so. i think that did we're looking for trends in 2013, you know, the potential re-emergence of higher natural gas prices could be there. we think it's going to take some time for that to happen. i think the trend in 2013 is going to b